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Out of curiosity, where would the regulators go for a case like this? There's no "company" running it per. se.
It seems the general consensus is GDPR applies even to OSS non company entities, but it would appear that there's very little being done to honor it.
https://www.zwilnik.com/better-social-media/activitypub-conference-2019/oss-compliance-with-privacy-by-default-and-design/#:~:text=Although%20GDPR%20directly%20applies%20only,sysadmins%2C%20including%20in%20the%20Fediverse.
This article outlines Fediverse and responsibilities, I think it mostly requires someone to file a lawsuit before there's any action.
In another case a man had cameras in his back yard that could also see a public area and was fined and forced to move them.
https://www.termsfeed.com/blog/gdpr-exemptions/
Mainly it just seems to be fodder to be used in lawsuits to make people comply with others security wishes. Not certain how all that works since cities are covered in public cameras.
I am not sure how a platform like this will work with GDPR - each server will be responsible themselves, but how it works with the flow of data between servers and who the regulators would have cases against - I think that is to be tested at some point.
They will go after a person instead.